Net Zero Watch Samizdat: The Cult

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Colin Brazier returns for our second short film on the cult of Net Zero and how it protects 'green' policies from being questioned by stifling debate and cracking down on free speech.

Stephen Moore: Was climate change the greatest financial scam in history?

Environmental scholar Bjorn Lomborg recently calculated that across the globe, governments have spent at least $16 trillion feeding the climate change industrial complex.

And for what?

Ian Bradford: Ignoring Climate Reality

There are a number of examples where the amount of carbon dioxide does not correlate with a temperature rise. Why are they continually ignored?   

Climate alarmists think that because carbon dioxide continues to rise and they put forward the idea that we have global warming then it is clear that the two show a correlation. So if one quantity rises and another quantity rises, then there must be correlation.  There are many cases where this is not true.   

Net Zero Watch Samizdat: The Way Up

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Net Zero Watch has produced this short documentary on Britain’s energy story and the real-world harms of Net Zero. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FILM.

Net Zero Watch Samizdat: All out war

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The war on fun

Ed Miliband was reported to be considering a tax on domestic ferry journeys, a move which might add 15% to prices. In a separate development in Labour’s war on fun, it was reported that he is also considering “guilt tripping” people when they try to book flights. Writing in the Times, Jeremy Clarkson said the Net Zero was ‘inhuman’.

David Farrar: The great climate climbdown

Matt Ridley writes:

I first wrote a doom–laden article for the Economist about carbon dioxide emissions trapping heat in the air in 1987, nearly 40 years ago. I soon realised the effect was real but the alarm was overdone, that feedback effects were exaggerated in the models. The greenhouse effect was likely to be a moderate inconvenience rather than an existential threat. For this blasphemy I was abused, cancelled, blacklisted, called a ‘denier’ and generally deemed evil.

Net Zero Watch Samizdat: Miliband moves full steam ahead as resistance mounts

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Ed Miliband leans on EU to turbocharge wind turbine blitz

Ed Miliband is joining forces with the EU to launch a major industrial push in the North Sea, pledging to work with European allies to build an estimated 10,000 wind turbines from the coasts of Denmark to Yorkshire. However, the plans are expected to come under scrutiny amid concerns that connected European energy projects risk pushing prices up and higher bills for consumers.

Kerre Woodham: It's not our opinions on climate change that matter

I have said it before and I'll say it again. We can argue for hours, we can have online debates, we can write letters to the editor about whether extreme weather events are the result of anthropomorphic activity or whether we're just in the middle of a natural cycle that's occurred for millennia, but ultimately, what we think about climate change doesn't really matter. It's what banks and insurers and councils and the Government thinks that matters.

Ian Wishart: Are climate activists ignoring the evidence at Mt Maunganui?

As the grief turns to anger over Thursday’s deadly landslide on Mt Maunganui (Mauao), the blame game has well and truly begun.

The landslide’s immediate cause was a 274mm deluge of rain in the 24 hours to 9 am Wednesday, which Met Service had claimed was the highest rainfall in Tauranga since records began in 1910.

Ian Bradford: These unusual weather events may be due to the Gulf Stream slowing down

Those who believe that humans are causing global warming sometimes agree, that warming has occurred in the past without the influence of humans but argue that it is the speed of the present warming that convinces them humans are responsible. They either don’t know about, or simply ignore the Younger Dryas. In fact, the Younger Dryas is one important example of an abrupt change. Throughout the Earth’s history there have been serious ice ages. About 14,500 years ago, Earth’s climate began to shift from one of those cold glacial worlds to a warmer interglacial state. However, part of the way through this transition, temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere SUDDENLY returned to near glacial conditions. This near glacial period is known as the Younger Dryas, named after the flower Dryas Octopetala, that grows in cold conditions and that became common in Europe during this time. The end of the Younger Dryas about 11,500 years ago was particularly abrupt. IN GREENLAND, TEMPERATURES ROSE 10 DEG C IN JUST 10 YEARS! (Alley, 2000). Proxy records including lake sediments in Europe, display these abrupt shifts. (Brauer et al, 2008).

Net Zero Watch Samizdat: Britain reaches “break glass” point for energy and industry

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John Bew: we are almost at “break glass moment” for energy and industrial policy

The respected historian, John Bew, has warned that Britain is nearing a “break glass moment” across domestic policy, including energy. A former adviser to four successive UK prime ministers, including Keir Starmer, Bew argues we must urgently rebuild the foundations of national hard power. He has said the world order is changing and Britain must abandon the Davos consensus. 

Net Zero Watch Samizdat: Mad Miliband pushes ahead with Big Wind rip-off

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AR7: Miliband secures 8.4GW of new offshore wind

Hundreds of new wind turbines are to be built around Britain’s coastline after Ed Miliband awarded yearly subsidies of up to £1.8bn to green energy developers. The Energy Secretary has approved plans for six new offshore wind farms following an auction of renewables contracts known as Allocation Round 7 (AR7). He secured a strike price of £95/MWh (2026 prices). As one of the UK’s largest-ever subsidy rounds, the costs will be borne by billpayers over a period of 20 years under Labour’s plans to hit net zero.

Sean Rush: No, the Supreme Court Didn’t Hand Climate Activists a Victory. It was an own goal.

If you’ve read the headlines about Climate Clinic Aotearoa v Minister of Energy, you might believe a group of law students marched into the Supreme Court and reshaped New Zealand’s climate policy. The popular narrative suggests a solid victory to the students, with reports that the students created new law, that climate is now a mandatory consideration when offering petroleum permits. But the reality is the decision lands as an own goal against climate activism.

Net Zero Watch Samizdat: 2026 Begins with an Energy Reality Check

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Britain increases its reliance on natural gas

Britain’s reliance on fossil fuels has increased for the first time in four years, dealing a major blow to Ed Miliband’s hopes of decarbonising the grid by 2030. Gas-fired power plants generated 26.8pc of power in 2025, a rise of 1.1pc from the year prior, according to new figures. Claire Coutinho, the shadow energy secretary, has accused Mr Miliband of needlessly driving up bills and putting the country’s energy security at risk through his ideological approach to energy policy.

Jonathan Paul: Greenland is rich in natural resources – a geologist explains why

Greenland, the largest island on Earth, possesses some of the richest stores of natural resources anywhere in the world.

These include critical raw materials – resources such as lithium and rare earth elements (REEs) that are essential for green technologies, but whose production and sustainability are highly sensitive – plus other valuable minerals and metals, and a huge volume of hydrocarbons including oil and gas.

Net Zero Watch Samizdat: All I want for Christmas is cheap power

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Miliband to miss clean power target by three years

Despite all the pain for British billpayers, a new report warns Miliband is set to miss his 2030 clean power target by three years. There’s not a hope in hell Miliband meets his target for 2030, or by 2033 for that matter.

Net Zero Watch Samizdat: Net Zero is structurally doomed

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New NZW reports: Net Zero is structurally doomed

This week, Net Zero Watch published two new reports and fresh polling that exploring public attitudes towards Net Zero.

Chris McVeigh: Media bias in New Zealand yet again

If you took a double at the TAB, with the Pope getting married as one leg and Radio New Zealand admitting to a smidgen of left wing partiality as the other, you could be forgiven for thinking that the smart money would be on the Vatican gig bringing home the bacon first.

RNZ is in a permanent state of denial on this. Just recently their flagship Sunday morning show Mediawatch (itself often patronisingly smug about its ethical purity) ran a lengthy item purporting to analyse a recent BSA report which found that public trust in the media was dwindling. The item was notable for a number of reasons: they prefaced their discussion by telling us all that, while public trust in the media might be on the wane, RNZ was the most trusted of all. Secondly the presenter, the redoubtable Colin Peacock (the thinking man's Joseph Parker), adopted a tone of almost stunned disbelief when dealing with these allegations. But most importantly of all, the entire discussion completely missed the point.

Net Zero Watch Samizdat: Energy as a common good

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Lord Glasman’s GWPF annual lecture: energy as a common good

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has released its 2025 Annual Lecture, delivered this year by Lord Glasman, founder of the Blue Labour movement. Glasman set out a wide-ranging argument for treating energy as a fundamental common good that is required for national security, industrial strategy and AI.

Dr William Happer Previews His Trip To NZ To Talk Climate Change Truth

Sean Plunket chats to Dr William Happer on The Platform about the climate change hoax.

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